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GISTERN FOR WATER OLOSETS. No. 320,625. Patented June 23, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT 2 OFFICE.

PETER CARNEY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

CISTERN FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,625, dated June 23, 1885 Application filed March 12, 1885. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER OARNEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gisterns for Water-Closets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed as an improvement upon the device secured by Letters Patent No. 292,160, granted January 22, 1884, and relates, essentially, to a cistern operated by the seat of the watencloset both when the seat is depressed and when released; and the object of my invention is to give a preliminary flush to the closet when the seat is depressed, and an after flush when the seat is released and rises.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is aplan of the cistern. Fig. 2 isa vertical section, at m a; of Fig. 1, through the shell of the cistern, the valves and other parts being in elevation; and Fig. 3 is a detached section through the preliminary-fiushing valve, and Fig. 4 is a section longitudinally of the trunk between the two compartments without the valve or its movable seat. I

The cistern is a box, preferably of cast-iron, with two compartments, A B, and having sides a a, ends I) b, and bottom 0 cast in one piece.

The dam d and trunk e are also cast with the rest of the cistern. Said trunk e is in the compartment A, and runs along above the bottom in one of the angles between one of the sides a and the bottom I), and this trunk opens at the end through the dam (2 into the compartment B.

A ring is fitted into an opening cast in the top of this trunk, the same forming a seat for the valve f, and this valve f has a guide, 2, a rubber ring, a bail, 3, and a rod, 4, connecting said valve to the lever g. This lever g is pivoted at 5 within the cistern, and its outer end is connected by a chain or wire, 6, to the seat of the closet, or to a platform or the door of the closet, and the other end of said lever is provided with the weight g.

The water is allowed to run into the compartment A by the ballvalve h, and when the valve f is open the water passes through the trunk and into the compartment B.

The parts of the cistern shown in Fig. 2 are overflow-pipe It, as is usual in cisterns of this character, and the top of the pipe is connected by a rod, 70, to an eye upon the lever g, and this valve, in Fig. 2, is shown open for the water to run by pipe Z to the closet.

The preliminary flush for the closet is given by the valve m, which has an internal rubber washer, m, and the lever n is hinged by lugs 7 to the valve m. Said lever n is pivoted at 8 to lugs cast upon the bottom a of the cistern. The lever n is bent with an offset at 10, and the float 0 has a screw-stem, 0, passing through the offset 10, a'iid the position of the float may be varied by said screw-stem and the screw be clamped by nuts 11, if, desired.

The pipel leads from the seat of this valve or to the pipe Z. When the compartment B is emptying, (see Fig. 2,) the ball 0 falls and the lever n opens the valve m, and the water then flows from both pipes Z Z until the compartment B and trunk are empty.

WVhen the closet is used and the seat de pressed, the lever g is pulled down, and the valve i closed and the valve f opened. The water then flows from the compartment A through the trunk 0 into the compartment B, and because the valve m is open a portion of this water flows away by the pipe I, and gives a preliminary flushing of the closet. More water enters the compartment B than can pass away by the valve m. Consequently the water rises in this compartment, and soon lifts the float o and closes the valve m, and the preliminary flushing ceases. The water then finds its level in the compartments A and B, and additional water is admitted by the ball-valve h.

When the closet-seat is released and the weight g returns the parts to their normal position, the valve f is closed, the valve 6 is opened, and the closet is flushed by the contents of the compartment B flowing through the pipe Z to the closet, and the float 0 descends, opening the valve m.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with a cistern for water-closets having a partition and the trunk e IOC opening through the same, of the weighted the same by the accumulation of the water,

lever g, pipe Z, and valvesf and 2', and a valve, and a lever and valve and pipe to discharge m, and its lever and float Within the compartthe Water from the cistern t0 the closet, subment B, and a pipe, Z, from the valve m to stantially as specified. I5 5 the pipe Z, whereby a preliminary flushing is Signed by me this 4th day of March, A. D.

given to the closet when the lever g is oper- 1885. I

ated, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the water-closet PETER GARNEY' cistern, of a valve to supply Water into the Witnesses: 1o cistern, a pipe to allow a preliminary wash to JORDAN L. MOTT, J r.,

pass to the closet, a float and valve to close h/IAX GOEBELh 

